Evidence

2253 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977
June 26, 1823

Armory Corresponce Regarding C&O Canal

From the National Intelligencer.Potomac Canal.– We have been favored with a copy of the following correspondence, which we publish with great pleasure, as it presents a view not hitherto taken, of the importance, of the proposed […]
May 28, 1823

Obit: Peter Conlan

DIED,On Sunday last, Mr. Peter Conlan, merchant, of this place. Mr. C. was a native of Ireland, but resided in this country for the last four or five years, and had taken the necessary steps to […]
August 6, 1822

Relief to the Irish

The subscription in Liverpool to relieve the distressed in Ireland, amounted, on the 11th of June, to 13116 14s. Sir James Mackintosh has obtained a pledge from the House of Commons “that it would take into […]
February 19, 1822

Ireland’s Unhappy Peasantry

The condition of things in Ireland is sufficient to keep the British government on the alert. The London Courier mentions, that ministers have determined to call out the yeomanry force of that island. A fierce spirit […]
October 9, 1821

Shepherdstown Deaths From Disease

From Shepherdstown, in Virginia, we are sorry to learn, through the medium of the newspaper printed there, that the sickness, at this late period of the season, in that town, and still more in the neighborhood, […]
October 9, 1821

Eastern Jefferson County Illnesses

SHEPHERDSTOWN, OCT. 3– The sickness in this Town, at the present time, exceeds any thing ever known in this place within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There is scarcely a family that has not some […]
September 21, 1821

Shepherdstown, Harpers Ferry Pestilence; Crops & Drought

SHEPHERDSTOWN, VA. SEPT. 12– We understand by a gentleman directly from Harper’s Ferry, that the disease which has been so malignant at that place, continues to rage with unabating violence. Never was it known to have […]
September 15, 1821

Sickness Ravages Harpers Ferry

As certainly as one season of the year is less favorable to health than another, we must expect, during the present month, to hear of much sickness and increased mortality. Of one who is taken sick […]
July 21, 1821

O’Donovan; Chemist

HARPERS FERRY, (Vir.) July 17.Medical Discovery.– Doctor T. C. Smith, of Dublin, lately obtained 5,800 premium from the English Parliament for the undermentioned recipe for Typhus malignant Fevers. Six drachms of powdered nitre, six drachms of […]
August 7, 1820

1820 Census: John Griggs Household

Cave Farm, Jefferson County, Virginia Page 92   John Griggs (HOH) Farmer Possible Estimated Birth Dates Male – 10 & under 16 1 1805-1810 Male – 16 & under 26 2 1795-1804 Male – 26 & under […]
January 25, 1819

Deed: Cadawalader to Flanagan

This Indenture made the twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Between Thomas Cadwalader of the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, Esquire, of […]
January 18, 1819

Will: Hugh Flanagan

In the name of God amen, I Hugh Flanegan of Frederick County and State of Maryland being in a good state of health but of sound and disposing mind and understanding and considering the certainty of […]